Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - indeterminate date
Townplots West, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townplots West
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21391, -9.24580
- SMR number
- MA022-009001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the SE quadrant of a rath (MA022-009).
This possible house consists of a low arc of stony bank (Wth 1.2m; H 0.3-0.4m) which enclosing a sub-rectangular space (c. 8m N-S; 5m E-W) against the inner face of the rath bank. A gap (Wth 2m) at the N end appears to mark an entrance.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 23 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.